Fatty 1 – The long road

So the tedium has set in.  I am following my plan, and things scale seems to be going down, very slowly, but at least it is going down. Actually it goes down and then up and then down and then up, but it is in ever so small increments going down.

That’s good and all, and i am not complaining (Ok, maybe I am). I am on my third week eating healthy and exercising, and while I am still doing good, my enthusiasm is waning.  It’s like getting ready for a road trip vacation.  You are all excited.  You look at travel brochures, you plan your route.  You do all the work of planning what you are going to pack, and then packing it.

There is restless sleep the night before, and then excitement to be up and out hitting the road.  You drive out of the familiar surroundings; every thing looks new and exciting.  Then after a bit it’s less exciting, and then it’s like driving in the Nevada desert, which if you have ever done that you know what I mean.  It is driving through a whole lot of nothing but cactus after cactus and scrubby brown desert.

You think to yourself, how much longer until we get to Vegas?  Oh, it is so much longer. You can’t really stop though in the desert.  There is no point; there is nothing there.

Unfortunately, in Dietland there are all sorts of things to lure you off the main road, down the dusty lane to that creepy small village where something bad then happens, like in the movies.

So how do you entertain yourself on the long drive?  I guess first of all you need to realize that you need to entertain yourself.  Yes, I am responsible for my own entertainment.  There is a song (which of course I can’t remember) that has a line that says “if you’re bored, then your boring.”  I always took that to mean if you are bored it means you weren’t creative enough to find something to do with yourself.

So I am going to try and entertain myself, distract myself from the tedium of the everyday. I have my eye on this book called The Art of Possibility.  I like to read a good motivational book now and again for inspiration.

A bit on the book from from the Amazon website

The lure of this book’s promise starts with the assumption in its title. Possibility–that big, all-encompassing, wide-open-door concept–is an art? Well, who doesn’t want to be a skilled artist, whether in the director’s chair, the boardroom, on the factory floor, or even just in dealing with life’s everyday situations? Becoming an artist, however, requires discipline, and what the authors of The Art of Possibility offer is a set of practices designed to “initiate a new approach to current conditions, based on uncommon assumptions about the nature of the world.”

If that sounds a little too airy-fairy for you, don’t be put off; this is no mere self-improvement book, with a wimpy mandate to transform its readers into “nicer” people. Instead, it’s a collection of illustrations and advice that suggests a way to change your entire outlook on life and, in the process, open up a new realm of possibility.

What intrigues me about the book is that it is supposed to talk about how our perceptions and assumptions (often incorrect) tend to limit what we can actually do. I have seen this in my own life, and I would like to find work-arounds for this, which this book is supposed to offer.

I’ll let you know what I think.